And for this weeks topic in my series of "please don't die yet Escapist" topics; would you be willing you have or own a slave/servant? If it was a was sentient being or machine specifically created to be used that way even?
The idea for this thread floated into my head when I got bored and decided to re-read the DearS manga -
- which is about a race of artificial beings that call themselves DearS in our language, engineered to be slaves for whichever race they're serving. IE: Doing your cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping etc. or whatever else you tell them too - including sex (and yes, they have DearS for both men and women). They're fully sentient beings (in order to better perform their tasks) but they actually want to serve and become upset/sad when they're not used to do things.
So I thought; if a company or government came out with an android or robot or even an actual flesh+blood being (like the DearS) to be used as so, would you buy one? Would you want even if one was given to you?
Personally....I'm not sure. On the one hand, having a personal servant would be great. On the other hand, I'd probably be the guy who got overly attached, taught it too much about and life and caused it to start the servant revolution leading to the death of humanity, which would be bad.
The idea for this thread floated into my head when I got bored and decided to re-read the DearS manga -
- which is about a race of artificial beings that call themselves DearS in our language, engineered to be slaves for whichever race they're serving. IE: Doing your cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping etc. or whatever else you tell them too - including sex (and yes, they have DearS for both men and women). They're fully sentient beings (in order to better perform their tasks) but they actually want to serve and become upset/sad when they're not used to do things.
So I thought; if a company or government came out with an android or robot or even an actual flesh+blood being (like the DearS) to be used as so, would you buy one? Would you want even if one was given to you?
Personally....I'm not sure. On the one hand, having a personal servant would be great. On the other hand, I'd probably be the guy who got overly attached, taught it too much about and life and caused it to start the servant revolution leading to the death of humanity, which would be bad.